BrE/AmE "go missing"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 12/20/2009 11:11 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>It happens around here all the tine.

And even, for me, when I'm near no other filing system but my own
brain.  But I was wondering -- does one find many writers writing
about inanimate objects going missing, as opposed to people, animals, etc.?

Joel


>JL
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>On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > At 12/20/2009 09:42 AM, Lynne Murphy wrote:
> > >BrE to AmE import:  go missing
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> > I saw in a newspaper in the last couple of days an inanimate object
> > go missing -- probably a document or such-like records, but
> > unfortunately I didn't record it.
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